My kids and I have been starting a variety of seeds here in the kitchen in some mini-greenhouses that we picked up at Wal-mart a month or so ago. Today we also picked up a few other seeds and today I'm going to order the few others I want from www.jungseeds.com and then that will be finished. I also picked up raspberries, blackberries, grapes, and blueberries. My parents picked me up two weeping willow trees at Walmart yesterday for only $10 each and they are at least 15' tall already. I'm going down with my dad's truck tomorrow to get at least 6 more fruit trees, they are only $10 each right now too. I need to have my hubby look at where I want the berries planted and see what grand design he can come up with for trellises, his design may just be me going to buy some already made! It is only March right now, and normally I'd not buy plants for outdoors this early, definitely not with our indecisive weather patterns, but I had a feeling if I didn't take advantage of the great deals right now, I'd miss out on them in another month or so. That happened last year with strawberries, when I wanted to buy them in mid April, nowhere had any, I had to order them form a seed catalog and I wound up going through about 5 companies before I finally found one with some in stock! So lesson learned, buy when you see them, then try to keep them alive until ready to plant outdoors. I planted 6 fruit trees last year and they didn't do much of anything, I think the deer kept eating the leaves off of them. So I'll leave them where they are for this year, and pray for some sort of growth, but I'll also be planting at least 6 to 12 more down below them, I hope to have a huge orchard one day. I'm so pleased at all the gardening possibilities we have right now, I can't wait for the weather to warm up some more so I can get my hands dirty! |
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Friday, March 23, 2007 - Untitled Comment
God bless,
Tammy